Kemp already purged voter rolls to get elected governor in Georgia. I hate to think what will happen if Raffensberger, who once stood up to Trump ("No, I can't find you 11,000 extra votes") surrenders when Trump eliminates Georgia voters with his Sharpie so Raffensberger can win the race for Governor.
Ta, Marcie. I'm not permitting all this horrible news to make me sick; I have to stay well. Beloved husband Meccalopolis and I went to the Outer Banks for our honeymoon, and visited NC again after Uncle's funeral in SC. While we were enjoying OBX, we drove repeatedly past a sign that said, "I'm Voting for the Convicted Felon" over an Israeli flag.
Also, as a college student with disabilities, I would like to take exception to the concept that college student inherently have no issues with mobility. Just because you assholes *think* people like me shouldn't go to college (or vote), doesn't mean we don't.
All of these "passive" barriers/speed bumps to voting are, in essence, POLL TAX and LITERACY TEST maneuvers. Weaponized filtering of the voting population by focused inappropriate targetting.
I’m currently reading We The People, a history of the Constitution by Jill LePore, historian and Professor of American History at Harvard. Just got through the section covering Reconstruction and the fight for the 15th Amendment. All I can say is same shit, different century.
Republicans haven't been ratfucking our elections since "forever", but they've made up for lost tines since they captured the legislature in the Tea Party wave of 2010. And ever since then they've been laser focused on suppressing the franchise, and stripping as much power as possible from the Executive Branch (except for the 4 miserable years that Republican Pat McCrony held the governor's mansion before becoming the first incumbent governor to be voted out of office in the *entire history of the state*).
There's a whole lot of ratfuckery that the NCGA has perpetrated in the past 16 years, but in statewide races, Democrats seem to do pretty well at the non-federal level. This year though, we might crack that wall again, with Thom Tillis retiring. That retirement was brought about in no small way by the fact that he knew he'd be running against Roy Cooper, and he would very likely get his ass handed to him, so he decided to not. Cooper, you may or may not know, has *never* lost an election, and has won statewide office twice as AG and twice as Governor. Michael Whatley, Trump's hand picked Republican has never won jack shit, because he's never run for office before. And he'll have a primary challenger in Michelle Morrow who would have won the "Most Entertainingly Batshit Candidate of 2024 if not for Mark Robinson. But lest you write off Morrow as a mere nuisance, she came frighteningly close to winning the race for Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2024 despite a complete absence of qualifying experience. She lost the race but because she was in it, she probably has more name recognition than Whatley does. And even if she doesn't beat him she'll force I'm to spend money and resources to put down the rebellion.
It's also very possible that the knee-bending gerrymander to squeeze Don Davis out of his seat in NC 01 will backfire. Not because Davis might hold on to his seat anyway -- he might, but he's almost a Republican anyway, so it's not like anybody would notice the difference -- but because in drawing Davis out, they weakened other safely red sitarists. One that I'm keeping an eye on is NC 09, currently held by NRCC Chair Richard Hudson which went from an R+11 or +12 to R +8 after the redraw. And his challenger is a retired US Army Airborne Ranger Major with a chest full of medals who voted for Trump in 2016, realized the mistake almost immediately and was actively campaigning against him by the time 2020 rolled around. Hudson, you may remember, is the one who told House Republicans to stop holding town halls. He's been MIA himself ever since while Ojeda, the grandson of immigrants, has been criss crossing the district meeting people where they're at and building white a following. Not for nothin', the mayoral races in two of the reddest towns in the central part of the state flipped to blue in the wave of 2025 local and county elections. And both of them are in NC 09, and both were visited by Ojeda'scampign prior to the 2025 elections.
The other thing the NCDP has going for it is Anderson Clayton. A 28-year-old ball of energy from Roxboro that I'm convinced never sleeps. She's Everything, Everywhere All at Once, and got elected as chair of the state party at the ripe old age of 25. And she's embraced the 100-county strategy to leave no seat unchallenged. She won't *win* every seat but in challenging every seat she'll force the NCGOP to spend in races they didn't expect to spend in. Want more to be optimistic about? NC Dems flipped 160+ local and county seats in 2025 with no statewide race to act as a draw while Republicans flipped ZERO. The lady got game.
I don't know if we can realistically flip one or both houses of the legislature but breaking the supermajorities in both is a real possibility. Holding Anita Earls' seat in the NC SC will be critical as well, because the 2028 races will only give us a shot at a majority if we hold that seat.
It might take a perfect storm, but we're familiar with storms around here. And the folks out in the western part of the state are intimately familiar with the damage they do... and they're pretty pissed off about it. The feds have done them on favors and the Republican majority state legislature has been no better. If this bomb cyclone does to the Eastern third of the state what Helene did to the west, and the response is equivalent... you just might see your perfect storm.
I'm (somehow) on Richard Hudspeth's mailing list. I confess I don't know a lot about him, but yeah, I'm singularly unimpressed by Edwards. Ojeda I've been following eve since he broke onto the scene c. 2020 when he wasn't running for anything and still living in WV. I think he has a real shot at chasing Hudson.
And you guys got -- at the risk of being indecorous -- double-fuck-oreoed with Helene. First Bunker Boy spread a bunch of lies about how your disaster money was going to "illegals", which was happily echoed by every Republican in the state, but caused a lot of people who *had help available* to not trust it because they'd been told "if you take that FEMA money they'll hold a lien on you house and take it form you later!" And people actually believed it. FEMA was embedded with state emergency management before Helene ever made landfall, and on the ground as soon as it was known what ground they needed to be on. But *then* -- and this is the part I find unforgivable -- the chucklekfucks in Raleigh passed a "hurricane relief bill" that didn't do fuck-all for hurricane relief, but attached to that bill was the one that owed control of elections from the SoS to the State Auditor. But how are you gonna vote against a "hurricane relief bill"? Turns out (and a Republican from WNC was the one that brought this up) the bill just moved money from one account to another -- it didn't appropriate a single dollar. It was a Trojan Horse -- a power grab dressed up as disaster relief. Every single one of those clown shoes needs to be tossed down Linville Gorge. (Sorry, every time I think about it steam starts rising from the top of my head. And I don't even live in that part of the state. But it seems like -- from he perspective of someone halfway across the state -- folks out there might be starting to catch on. When we're seeing Democrats winning in Avery County? That's a shot across the bow there.
The press: Sure the republicans gerrymandered all democrats and indies into one district and then threw people off the roles after the deadline to register and further threw out ballots because they claimed the ink was smudged....by why can't Democrats reach the Real Americans?
Well, damn. I am living in one of the Craven Eleven, and after reading this went looking for more info. Our information was submitted to the feds a month ago, including DL and partial SSN.
Nice work, ya lizard-bellied, flat-footed, spine-shriveled, flapping-ballsack, nazi-poop-nosed collaborators!
In my previous town, I used to volunteer to drive people to their polling place at every election. I normally only got 2 or 3 people per election...usually senior citizens in wheelchairs (I have a wheelchair lift on my car) or young people who had broken a leg and didn't have a car, or similar situations. The city buses were all free on election days in that small college town.
Once I got a call from a young man who is paralyzed from the neck down (car accident), and who lives in public housing with his mother as caregiver, but the man's electric wheelchair had broken and he was waiting for repairs to be made. It turned out the polling place for him was actually in the main admin building for the apartment complex, and only about 1-1/2 blocks away, so his mother and I PUSHED him up the sidewalk to the office door, and the election workers came outside with a clipboard so he could vote more easily.
If someone can't get to a polling place for any reason, they should contact their local political party office and ask for assistance. They should have a list of volunteers who can transport them.
Oh well, the Republicans legislatures will start passing laws making it illegal to vote unless you drove yourself or walked unassisted to the polling place. No use of public transportation or bicycles. Too woke.
That's actually depressingly plausible. But they tried sending the goon squads (True the Vote, et. al.) and that didn't work, so now they're weaponizing the administrative state against the franchise.
One of the most depressing days of my life was the day I discovered that Sydney "The Kraken Lady" Powell and I went to the same high school. She was several years ahead of me, so we didn't overlap, but the day I learned that ranks right behind the day I lost my dog. Who was a better person than almost all of the actual people I know.
I suspect that would be the case, too - but the NC Supreme Court could easily delay a ruling until it's too fucking late for 2026. Maybe someone could get a TRO or and injunction beforehand, but that's iffy, too, in my mind ( even tho' IANAL )
Kemp already purged voter rolls to get elected governor in Georgia. I hate to think what will happen if Raffensberger, who once stood up to Trump ("No, I can't find you 11,000 extra votes") surrenders when Trump eliminates Georgia voters with his Sharpie so Raffensberger can win the race for Governor.
Ta, Marcie. I'm not permitting all this horrible news to make me sick; I have to stay well. Beloved husband Meccalopolis and I went to the Outer Banks for our honeymoon, and visited NC again after Uncle's funeral in SC. While we were enjoying OBX, we drove repeatedly past a sign that said, "I'm Voting for the Convicted Felon" over an Israeli flag.
So the legislature has no faith that the Secretary of State can do its job by registering voters properly.
The only faith the NCGA has is *bad* faith.
Also, as a college student with disabilities, I would like to take exception to the concept that college student inherently have no issues with mobility. Just because you assholes *think* people like me shouldn't go to college (or vote), doesn't mean we don't.
“Presumptive”? Presumed by WHO?
THE BASIC DYNAMIC
All of these "passive" barriers/speed bumps to voting are, in essence, POLL TAX and LITERACY TEST maneuvers. Weaponized filtering of the voting population by focused inappropriate targetting.
I’m currently reading We The People, a history of the Constitution by Jill LePore, historian and Professor of American History at Harvard. Just got through the section covering Reconstruction and the fight for the 15th Amendment. All I can say is same shit, different century.
Republicans haven't been ratfucking our elections since "forever", but they've made up for lost tines since they captured the legislature in the Tea Party wave of 2010. And ever since then they've been laser focused on suppressing the franchise, and stripping as much power as possible from the Executive Branch (except for the 4 miserable years that Republican Pat McCrony held the governor's mansion before becoming the first incumbent governor to be voted out of office in the *entire history of the state*).
There's a whole lot of ratfuckery that the NCGA has perpetrated in the past 16 years, but in statewide races, Democrats seem to do pretty well at the non-federal level. This year though, we might crack that wall again, with Thom Tillis retiring. That retirement was brought about in no small way by the fact that he knew he'd be running against Roy Cooper, and he would very likely get his ass handed to him, so he decided to not. Cooper, you may or may not know, has *never* lost an election, and has won statewide office twice as AG and twice as Governor. Michael Whatley, Trump's hand picked Republican has never won jack shit, because he's never run for office before. And he'll have a primary challenger in Michelle Morrow who would have won the "Most Entertainingly Batshit Candidate of 2024 if not for Mark Robinson. But lest you write off Morrow as a mere nuisance, she came frighteningly close to winning the race for Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2024 despite a complete absence of qualifying experience. She lost the race but because she was in it, she probably has more name recognition than Whatley does. And even if she doesn't beat him she'll force I'm to spend money and resources to put down the rebellion.
It's also very possible that the knee-bending gerrymander to squeeze Don Davis out of his seat in NC 01 will backfire. Not because Davis might hold on to his seat anyway -- he might, but he's almost a Republican anyway, so it's not like anybody would notice the difference -- but because in drawing Davis out, they weakened other safely red sitarists. One that I'm keeping an eye on is NC 09, currently held by NRCC Chair Richard Hudson which went from an R+11 or +12 to R +8 after the redraw. And his challenger is a retired US Army Airborne Ranger Major with a chest full of medals who voted for Trump in 2016, realized the mistake almost immediately and was actively campaigning against him by the time 2020 rolled around. Hudson, you may remember, is the one who told House Republicans to stop holding town halls. He's been MIA himself ever since while Ojeda, the grandson of immigrants, has been criss crossing the district meeting people where they're at and building white a following. Not for nothin', the mayoral races in two of the reddest towns in the central part of the state flipped to blue in the wave of 2025 local and county elections. And both of them are in NC 09, and both were visited by Ojeda'scampign prior to the 2025 elections.
The other thing the NCDP has going for it is Anderson Clayton. A 28-year-old ball of energy from Roxboro that I'm convinced never sleeps. She's Everything, Everywhere All at Once, and got elected as chair of the state party at the ripe old age of 25. And she's embraced the 100-county strategy to leave no seat unchallenged. She won't *win* every seat but in challenging every seat she'll force the NCGOP to spend in races they didn't expect to spend in. Want more to be optimistic about? NC Dems flipped 160+ local and county seats in 2025 with no statewide race to act as a draw while Republicans flipped ZERO. The lady got game.
I don't know if we can realistically flip one or both houses of the legislature but breaking the supermajorities in both is a real possibility. Holding Anita Earls' seat in the NC SC will be critical as well, because the 2028 races will only give us a shot at a majority if we hold that seat.
It might take a perfect storm, but we're familiar with storms around here. And the folks out in the western part of the state are intimately familiar with the damage they do... and they're pretty pissed off about it. The feds have done them on favors and the Republican majority state legislature has been no better. If this bomb cyclone does to the Eastern third of the state what Helene did to the west, and the response is equivalent... you just might see your perfect storm.
As a Western NCian, I can't wait to see the last of Chuckie Do-Nothing [known to the rest of the world as Chuck Edwards]
I'm (somehow) on Richard Hudspeth's mailing list. I confess I don't know a lot about him, but yeah, I'm singularly unimpressed by Edwards. Ojeda I've been following eve since he broke onto the scene c. 2020 when he wasn't running for anything and still living in WV. I think he has a real shot at chasing Hudson.
And you guys got -- at the risk of being indecorous -- double-fuck-oreoed with Helene. First Bunker Boy spread a bunch of lies about how your disaster money was going to "illegals", which was happily echoed by every Republican in the state, but caused a lot of people who *had help available* to not trust it because they'd been told "if you take that FEMA money they'll hold a lien on you house and take it form you later!" And people actually believed it. FEMA was embedded with state emergency management before Helene ever made landfall, and on the ground as soon as it was known what ground they needed to be on. But *then* -- and this is the part I find unforgivable -- the chucklekfucks in Raleigh passed a "hurricane relief bill" that didn't do fuck-all for hurricane relief, but attached to that bill was the one that owed control of elections from the SoS to the State Auditor. But how are you gonna vote against a "hurricane relief bill"? Turns out (and a Republican from WNC was the one that brought this up) the bill just moved money from one account to another -- it didn't appropriate a single dollar. It was a Trojan Horse -- a power grab dressed up as disaster relief. Every single one of those clown shoes needs to be tossed down Linville Gorge. (Sorry, every time I think about it steam starts rising from the top of my head. And I don't even live in that part of the state. But it seems like -- from he perspective of someone halfway across the state -- folks out there might be starting to catch on. When we're seeing Democrats winning in Avery County? That's a shot across the bow there.
The press: Sure the republicans gerrymandered all democrats and indies into one district and then threw people off the roles after the deadline to register and further threw out ballots because they claimed the ink was smudged....by why can't Democrats reach the Real Americans?
This stuff makes my blood boil. Can't anyone do something? I don't like feeling so helpless.
This is wrong on so many levels it brings on my dyscalculia.
Well, damn. I am living in one of the Craven Eleven, and after reading this went looking for more info. Our information was submitted to the feds a month ago, including DL and partial SSN.
Nice work, ya lizard-bellied, flat-footed, spine-shriveled, flapping-ballsack, nazi-poop-nosed collaborators!
In my previous town, I used to volunteer to drive people to their polling place at every election. I normally only got 2 or 3 people per election...usually senior citizens in wheelchairs (I have a wheelchair lift on my car) or young people who had broken a leg and didn't have a car, or similar situations. The city buses were all free on election days in that small college town.
Once I got a call from a young man who is paralyzed from the neck down (car accident), and who lives in public housing with his mother as caregiver, but the man's electric wheelchair had broken and he was waiting for repairs to be made. It turned out the polling place for him was actually in the main admin building for the apartment complex, and only about 1-1/2 blocks away, so his mother and I PUSHED him up the sidewalk to the office door, and the election workers came outside with a clipboard so he could vote more easily.
If someone can't get to a polling place for any reason, they should contact their local political party office and ask for assistance. They should have a list of volunteers who can transport them.
Oh well, the Republicans legislatures will start passing laws making it illegal to vote unless you drove yourself or walked unassisted to the polling place. No use of public transportation or bicycles. Too woke.
That's actually depressingly plausible. But they tried sending the goon squads (True the Vote, et. al.) and that didn't work, so now they're weaponizing the administrative state against the franchise.
Just to point out they gave up pretending a long, long time ago and idiots kept voting for them. The US is fucked.
the idiots figured they would win forever because they were special and fuck all us
That photo of Kraken Lawyer Lady and pal could be a screen grab from a horror film, I swear. When I first saw it chills ran up my spine.
One of the most depressing days of my life was the day I discovered that Sydney "The Kraken Lady" Powell and I went to the same high school. She was several years ahead of me, so we didn't overlap, but the day I learned that ranks right behind the day I lost my dog. Who was a better person than almost all of the actual people I know.
Isn’t she on probation for her Georgia convictions? Guess stupid has no limits
ANOTHER CONFESSION
Trump Issues "America 1776-2026" Logo, Marks Death Of Nation
Is the term "presumptive noncitizen" even legal? Who makes the decision - the asshole Republican election boards? What are the criteria?
Even if this was challenged in the courts, it's apparent that there would be no decision until after the 2026 election.
name that sounds foreign, black, hispanic, ya know - those people
I have a feeling this will get thrown out when challenged in court.
But will that happen in time? You might not understand just what a bunch of ratfuckers we have in Raleigh.
and yet ... Don Lemon was arrested anyway
Before or after the election?
From your lips to Cod's ears.
I suspect that would be the case, too - but the NC Supreme Court could easily delay a ruling until it's too fucking late for 2026. Maybe someone could get a TRO or and injunction beforehand, but that's iffy, too, in my mind ( even tho' IANAL )
Even uncertainty suppresses the vote.
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